Granted, I haven't been to Staten Island so I don't really know what the view situation is like toward Manhattan, but the site is less than half the distance to lower Manhattan as the Staten Island wheel site, making this seem like a much better site for one of those things. Even then, still seems less than ideal. Hoboken or Greenpoint would provide the full panoramic views of Manhattan that I suspect *most* people would be trying to access, but hell if either of those would ever allow anything of the sort.
Then again, I suspect, as has been already mentioned, this proposed element is probably just another ball being thrown at the dunk tank of state funding to see what moves the project forward rather than a serious proposal.
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